Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates

Computation Across the Disciplines

Throughout science and engineering fields, the availability of cheap
computer processing power is driving increased interest in large-scale
and multi-scale problems that were previously thought to be
intractable or unsolvable through traditional methods. The rise of
high-throughput, parallel, and distributed computing technologies has
created a great need for researchers and practitioners with a deep
understanding of computer science, mathematical modeling and
statistical methods who can work across disciplines to build real
solutions. This can include developing new computational
methodologies, computer software and/or computer systems, as well as
new theoretical models.

At the same time, ever smaller computing platforms have inserted
computation into mobile, embedded, and ubiquitous realms of human
experience that would have been unthinkable only a few years ago.
Energy consumption of both massive computing clusters and
battery-operated appliances is of great concern.

Our mentor research areas lie in all of these areas, as well
as in how people learn to work in these fields, and how we prepare the
next generation of students to explore computational sciences and
mathematics.